Sample Sentences forcraven (auto-selected)
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"You're too stupid to be craven," Pyp told him.† (source)
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They are more accepted in France, where the doctors are less prone to craven orthodoxies.† (source)
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I feel like a hunted, craven animal, which is exactly how the Empire sees me—how it sees all Scholars.† (source)
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"Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera," Mr. Craven had said in his short, cold way.† (source)
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We shared a wall between our sideshow tents, venally baring ourselves to the curious and craven.† (source)
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I did an inexplicable and, I'm afraid, craven thing then.† (source)
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He was complacent and insecure, daring in the administrative stratagems he employed to bring himself to the attention of his superiors and craven in his concern that his schemes might all backfire.† (source)
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I urge you to seize this chance, for he will suffer no cravens or neutrals once battle is joined.† (source)
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....You mean to say that your cooks have all cravenly left for their homes?† (source)
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His manner vacillated between hostility and a craven sort of fawning-like a stud mongrel that has been kicked too often.† (source)
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There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.† (source)
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In the meantime Thomas Mugridge, like a drowned rat, was being dragged out from under the forecastle head where he had cravenly ensconced himself.† (source)
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Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.† (source)
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Not only would the Nawab Bahadur and others be angry, but the Government of India itself also watches—and behind it is that caucus of cranks and cravens, the British Parliament.† (source)
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He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart's and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.† (source)
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Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of dependence that he renounced his rational faculty.† (source)
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